Real Estate and Development

Don Mazziotti, the executive director of the Portland Development Commission since May 2001, has announced he will be resigning from his position as head of the city’s influential urban renewal agency. Mazziotti will continue to lead the Commission during a ...

A Gresham industrial park was the big winner at Friday’s presentation of the 2004 SIOR Transactions of the Year. The Oregon chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors named the Commons at Southshore, a Gresham industrial complex featuring ...

SILVERTON – The Oregon Garden, which has struggled to attract visitors since its opening, is entertaining proposals to build a 50-to-100 room hotel adjacent to the garden’s main grounds. Pat LaCrosse, the garden’s executive director, said the Garden recently fielded ...

The Office of the Governor and the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development released additional guidelines this week for state agency directors, local governments and legislators on the implementation of Ballot Measure 37. Passed by Oregon voters in November, ...

YAKIMA, Wash. – A sawmill dating from the origin of Boise Cascade LLC, the city’s oldest continuously operating manufacturing business and a longtime icon of the region’s forest industry, is being closed. The permanent shutdown and loss of as many ...

SALEM – Oregon cities like Redmond, Hood River and Beaverton are growing so fast that their school systems just can’t keep up. But unlike neighboring California and Washington, Oregon has no laws that require the price of building new schools ...

BEAVERTON – Almost a dozen bills that could choke off the power of Oregon cities to annex new territory are under consideration by lawmakers. Some of the ideas could affect most of the state’s cities, like a plan to require ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Brown & Cole Stores plans to sell eight of its 31 stores in Washington state, a result of Wal-Mart’s advance into the supermarket business, the head of the company says. The company based in Bellingham is selling ...

BEND – More than half-a-century ago, Gary Nelson’s father bought 160 acres in then-wide-open Deschutes County, where his family farmed potatoes, dairy cows and hay. Today, though, the resort town of Bend is creeping ever-closer to their homestead, and the ...